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HELP: Compressor Status: Copying Source Files?????
Please forgive me if this is the wrong forum for this post, but I am getting desperate and this forum seamed to be the logical place to try.
I posted this problem on the Apple Discussion board and LAFCPUG and have yet to get a helpful response. I am overdue on delivery of this project and need help desperately!!!
OK, I just upgraded to FCP Studio last week and have completed editing my first project with FCPS. I export the final sequence as Self Contained QT. I launch Compressor and drop the exported sequence into the batch window, and finally set the audio to Dolby 2,0 and Video to MPEG 2 90 Minutes High Quality.
I click on the submit button and Batch Monitor pops up. However, when I look at the status, the message “Preparing: Copying Source File (…..)” is displayed.
What is going on here and why would Compressor need to “Copy” anything??? Both the Source and destination files are on local, internal discs (same folder actually.
The source file is 16.5 GB, 1h17m28s and as such copying is adding a considerable amount of time to the processing of the file (it is taking EASILY in excess of an hour to complete the copy – it’s been almost 20 minutes and it has only gotten through a little more that 3.5 GB!!!
This is nuts!!! Under FCP HD, I could export and render an unrendered 2 hour video faster than this COPY process is taking!
Can someone tell why this is happening and what I can do to speed things up.
At this rate, I can get better though put results by streaming the final video to a DVD Recorder, ripping the resulting disc and using the resulting rip in DVDSP than I will ever get with Compressor!!!
Any help with this problem is EXTREMELY appreciated!!
PS. I originally tried exporting from FCP directly to Compressor last night (around 11 PM) and when I checked on the Compressor (about 1 pm today), Batch monitor status still reported “Preparing…”!! I killed the job, then exported the sequence out as a QT reference file, dropped the ref file into compressor, and after an hour, the Batch Monitor status showed Copying barely past 500 MB!!!!
This is worse than the times I was getting in FCP 2 on a Dual 500 G4 and completely unacceptable!!! If this kind of through put time is what I have to look forward to with FCPS, I may as well send it back to the Apple Store and reinstall FCP HD and use a DVD Recorder to create DVDs. At least then I can count on REAL TIME processing!!
PSS. About 70 minutes ago I made delivery of a “sample” of the video content by steaming from FCP to a DVD Recorder. Although they were understanding about not getting the final DVD to review, they accepted the DVD Recorder version to verify the video edit. However, they still need to review the menued DVD – I can always RIP the DVD Recorder disc, but that does not lend well to precision chapter marks.
Thanks
Gary Sumlak
thumbprints Multimedia Inc.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
https://www.thumbprints.ca/*** Superior Film Transfers at a Reasonable Price ***
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Post which version of OS, FCP, QuickTime, and Compressor you are running EXACTLY. If you are running Tiger, how did you get there? i.e. did you do a clean install of it then install the studio?
I just did 120 minutes worth of HQ MPEGS from uncompressed and DV sources and it completed the job in about 4 hours on my dual 2 gig g5… so sounds to me like you have to reinstall some software somewhere or update or…
I’m running QT 7.0.1, OS 10.4.2, and FCP 5.0.2
Jerry
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> I’m running QT 7.0.1, OS 10.4.2, and FCP 5.0.2
Ditto. I installed the full Final Cut Suite under Tiger. All Software Updates are current. All other apps are working perfectly, including export from FCP using QT to export to m2v. Your times sound about right for what I get using the QT export.Compressor, for the most part is working OK – all audio conversions are just as fast as before. Its just it does this Copy thing.
I am wondering, the self contained video is on an internal secondary drive, so is compressor copying the file to the system drive? If so, there was not be enough space on the system drive. Is having the source file on the system drive a requirement for distributed processing?
If so, then that could explain the stalling…. once the drive filled up, there is no place to continue copying the source movie, and it just bogs down. Although, I would think that Compressor would issue some kind of error message when it ran out of disc space.
Thanks,
Gary Sumlak
thumbprints Multimedia Inc.
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
https://www.thumbprints.ca/*** Superior Film Transfers at a Reasonable Price ***
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